SAFETY STIRRUPS. 



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side is curved (Fig. 24). This is done in Fig. 27, 

 by the word " heel." 



The chief faults of so-called safety stirrups are 

 as follows : 



i. They may catch on the foot, on account of get- 

 ting crushed by coming in violent contact with a tree, 



Fig. 24. Scott's stirrup open. 



wall or other hard object, or by the horse falling on his 

 near side. When I was living in India, I had a Scott 

 safety stirrup jammed on my foot in this manner, by a 

 horse which I was riding, making a sudden shy and 

 dashing against a wall. The iron was so firmly fixed 

 to my foot by this accident, that it could not be taken 

 off until, after much pain and trouble, my foot was 



